White hair and blue shirt

White hair and blue shirt

White hair and blue shirt, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B á if à Q à ngsh à n, which means old age but not fame. From Hou Ji Lu.

Idiom explanation

Qingshan: the dress of the nobility.

The origin of Idioms

The seventh volume of Hou Ji Lu by Zhao lingwan of Song Dynasty The poem says: "white hair and blue shirt get official in the evening, qionglin suddenly feels the wine bowel is wide, no one asks in the evening of pingkang, so the palace flowers wake up and watch."

Idiom usage

Combined; used as adverbial and object; with derogatory meaning. He worked hard, but because of his bad luck, he got nothing.